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Alex Carballo-Diéguez1, Rebecca Giguere2, Iván C Balán2, William Brown2,3,4,5, Curtis Dolezal2, Cheng-Shiun Leu2,6, Javier Lopez Rios2,7, Alan Z Sheinfil8, Timothy Frasca2, Christine Tagliaferri Rael2, Cody Lentz2, Raynier Crespo9, Sarah Iribarren10, Catherine Cruz Torres9, Irma Febo9.
Abstract
ISUM ("I'll show you mine") was a randomized controlled trial in which 272 transgender women and men who have sex with men in New York, NY (NYC) and San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU) were assigned to an intervention group (n = 136), in which they had access to free HIV self-testing (ST) kits, or to a control group (n = 136). The trial aimed to determine whether the intervention group would use ST to screen sexual partners and have fewer condomless anal intercourse (CAI) occasions with serodiscordant or unknown status partners than the control group. The intervention group had on average 10 (32%) fewer CAI occasions; though clinically relevant, this difference fell short of statistical significance (p = .08). In NYC (n = 166) intervention participants had significantly fewer CAI occasions, whereas in SJU (n = 106) they reported non-significantly more CAI occasions. Two devastating hurricanes hit SJU during the study and may have impacted results in unmeasured ways.Entities:
Keywords: HIV; MSM; Prevention; Self-testing; Transgender women
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Year: 2020 PMID: 31853772 PMCID: PMC7771229 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-019-02763-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS Behav ISSN: 1090-7165